Yamamoto, December 7/8, 1941. Now if anyone could give me a correct citation for his 1941 quote, "We can never invade mainland United States. There is a gun behind every blade of grass," I would REALLY appreciate it. In my opinion, it would have been in a paper he wrote in late 1940 or during one of two staff meetings in the summer of 1941, but I have not been able to nail it.

Originally Posted By Fallschirmjaegar:
1)"I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant."?

Originally Posted By Liberty Ship:
Now if anyone could give me a correct citation for his 1941 quote, "We can never invade mainland United States. There is a gun behind every blade of grass," I would REALLY appreciate it.

View Quote

This quote came up the other day in Tora Tora Tora -- not the movie, the History Channel account of Pearl Harbor. It's from one of the Japanese mucky-mucks.
Stay tuned, History Channel re-runs everything.

Japan was anti-gun from the start because it upset them that some illiterate untrained peasant could defeat a Samurai trained from birth.
It was eliteism. In so many countries around the world, you have to know people to get guns. America is getting more and more like that.